Electrical Design Technical Expert and Team Lead

What Makes a Honda, Is Who Makes a Honda

Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it’s a joyful one. We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success. We strive to be a company that serves as a source of “power” that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential.

To this end, Honda strives to realize “the joy and freedom of mobility” by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a “zero environmental footprint.”

We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team.

If your goals and values align with Honda’s, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

Provide technical leadership and management for a Powersports design function by guiding engineering output, supervising team execution, and ensuring delivery of high-quality specifications, designs, and development results. This role integrates technical expertise with organizational leadership to achieve business objectives, advance product development, maintain global quality standards, and strengthen overall engineering capability.

• Direct and approve engineering output by reviewing design specifications, calculations, drawings, and documentation to ensure accuracy, quality, and alignment with targets.
• Lead technical problem solving for development and mass production issues, driving root cause analysis, countermeasures, and risk mitigation.
• Lead, supervise, and contribute within a design team to realize development deliverables across multiple concurrent projects.
• Assign and balance workload, priorities, and resources to achieve development schedules and business targets.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and technical guidance to develop team capability and ensure consistent output quality.
• Drive effective communication within the function and across other functions/ departments to resolve issues, align expectations, and ensure smooth execution.
• Represent the function in discussions with management, suppliers, and global affiliates to advocate technical direction and resource needs.
• Grow technical capability through knowledge sharing, mentorship, and development of best practices.
• Improve design processes, tools, and methods to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and repeatability (e.g., PDCA, recurrence prevention).
• Promote cross-functional learning and adoption of standardized engineering practices.
• Lead hiring and performance evaluation processes to maintain a capable and balanced organization. Support workforce planning process.
• Assist in establishing team and individual goals aligned with business objectives.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering for relevant field. (eg: Electrical or Mechanical).
• Equivalent experience may be considered.

• 8+ Years related work experience preferably in Powersports or Automotive field.
• 2+ Years supervisory/project leadership in a similar organization.

• Capable at providing direction to direct reports according to established policies and management guidelines
• Strong leadership, coaching and mentoring skills
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Ability to interact/communicate effectively with staff/management in a global organization
• Able to resolve conflict and lead crucial conversations
• Must be able to operate with high level of confidentiality
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products (Excel, Powerpoint, Word, Outlook)
• Competent in FTA, FMEA, dimensional tolerance stack-ups and application
• Competent analytical, problem solving, judgement, decision-making and prioritization
• Competent drawing and layout skills/techniques using CAD software, including understanding of CAE principles
• Competent in creating a plan and schedule
• Competent in understand product…